Show WORKS ON SERUM TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA noted immunologist hopes to be successful philadelphia A serum for the prevention of one of mankind s most da i berous all aliments ments pneumonia Is tle tl e new objective of dr john A holn er noted immunologist who has just dis covered what he declares to be tie tl e world s first successful vaccine against infantile paralysis the energetic scientist who heads the medical staff of temple university here made this Ilse losure after describing the unusual experiments which result ed in devising the anti paralysis vac cine he ile said kt present I 1 am attempting to pro cure a serum for the prevention of 0 pneumonia I 1 hope to be successful with it in the course of time tle tl e famed immunologist dc declined lined to disclose details of his nv n v esperi ments meats he ile instead preferred to dis cuss cus the research work vork he has aheady done on the successful anti paralysis which he injected into his own veins and those of a laboratory as si al stant preventative measure doctor bolmer stressed the fact that the vaccine Is entirely a preventative measure and Is in no way nay a cure tor for after infection sets in the scientist explained he la Is now ready to attack the problem of cura the treatment of the disease doat r coln er said his interest NN is aroused in the problem of finding a satis fac tory vaccine by the infantile paral sis epidemic of three ears ago in PI and environs professor kolmer announced in the near future I 1 intend to vac binate my own two sons with my serum the boys are eleven and fifteen years of age both doctor kolmer and his assist ant attractive anna al rule risked their lives in order to demonstrate the success of the new vaccine the vac cine clue contains the virus of the deadly alltis which Is the n edical term for infantile paralysis said doctor kolmer I 1 am convinced that the vaccine Is entirely successful 21 elther of us suffered any III ef feets from the injections miss kule rule volunteered to submit to the injections of the serum and nd dis played the highest courage in the face of possible death the vaccine Is available now to ward aard off any possible epidemics of acute anterior poliomyelitis that may be lurking in the future vaccine from spine the successful vaccine Is prepared from the spinal pinal cord of that have developed the disease after tl e injection of the pollo myel Us bius into the brain under ether anesthesia the spinal cord of one monkey incidentals all will furnish about seven ounces of vac nae cine sufficient lelent for the vaccination of about 50 children the vaccine contal containing 0 the virus Is treated with a chemical substance de rived from castor beans called sodium the presence of the sodium does not completely kill the virus but effects a change that renders the serum safe for injections into mon men keys and human beings the discoverer ot of anti paralysis vac cine clue lives in suburban conwood he ile Is married and has two children he was born in lonaconing Lona coning md mil in 1888 1886 |